Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 12 May 2015
649. Deputy Regina Doherty asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will instruct the National Parks and Wildlife Service to report on the status of the request to remove an area of the Broadmeadow Estuary in Donabate in County Dublin from the Annual Foreshore Licence issued under the Wildlife Acts. [18701/15]
View answerUnder Section 30 of the Wildlife Act 1976 as amended, I may grant permission to "hunt protected wild animals and wild birds on or over foreshore belonging to the State or on or over land belonging to the State and which is either covered by any inland waters or comprised in the lakeshore accretion from any lake, or accretion from the sea where such land is owned by the State". My Department has received a request from a number of local hunting organisations to exclude hunting of wildfowl in an area of the Broadmeadow Estuary under Foreshore Licences. A decision will be made on the application as soon as possible.
